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Smoking Causes Premature Smoking

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Imagine turning forty-two years old then looking in the mirror and you look double your age. This is what smoking cigarettes will do to you. This ad by Nicotinell is trying to explain that smoking cigarettes will cause premature aging. In this image, there is a lady celebrating her forty-second birthday, but she doesn’t look forty-two at all. She looks like a grandmother in her eighties. I found this picture on Google Images while searching for PSA’s. I decided to go with this picture because it was really eye catching and very straight forward. This PSA targets cigarette smokers because the brand Nicotinell sells patches to stop nicotine addiction. It also says “Smoking causes premature aging” on the PSA also. This PSA illustrates a point by making it very obvious that smoking causes premature aging. This imagine is important to me because my mother smokes cigarettes and I want to show this paper to her when I am finished to hopefully get her to stop smoking cigarettes! This image can be analyzed by looking at eight rhetorical factors: character roles, setting, type of photo, distance from subject, orientation/camera angle, use of color, point of view and image manipulation. First, character roles. There is only one character is this PSA but she plays a major role in what they are trying to say. She is a forty-two-year-old lady that looks eighty years old. In this picture, she is lighting her cigarette on the candle which is the number four. The other candle is the number

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